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Topic: wasmtime / issue #5174 cranelift-isle: Factor out rule/pa...

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jameysharp commented on issue #5174:

I've thought of one hypothetical case where this might change behavior: if the top-level pattern on the left-hand side of some rule is a bind-pattern.

In the current implementation, ir::lower_rule calls ruledata.lhs.root_term() to determine where to get the generated function's parameters from. It then calls gen_pattern on the ruledata.lhs.

Pattern::root_term recurses on the subpattern if it's called on a Pattern::BindPattern, until it finds a Pattern::Term. But after this PR, Rule::visit panics if the top-level pattern is a bind-pattern instead of a term.

I think the existing behavior isn't useful, because you can't _do_ anything with a name bound to the root term. The root term doesn't have a Rust representation that you can pattern match on or use in expressions. The current implementation of gen_pattern silently ignores the attempt to bind the name, so if you later try to use that name, it'll panic saying "Variable should already be bound".

So I think this is a reasonable behavior "change" in that it'll report a meaningless ISLE construct sooner. And this doesn't happen anywhere in our test suite or our existing cranelift-codegen rules (or we'd see this panic in CI).

I think we should go a step further and forbid bind-patterns in Pattern::root_term, as well as anywhere else that might currently permit them at the root of Rule::lhs.

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